Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson spent his early years in Alabama with his grandparents, plantation workers on the same plantation that their forefathers toiled on as slaves. He still remembers the “whites only” and “coloreds only” signs that separated the races back then. And at a young age, his parents split up and moved away. But he isn’t angry anymore.

Instead of hating whites or America for the circumstances he was born into, Rev. Peterson wants to “unite the races” and “stand up for the greatest country in the world,” he told JBS.org in a telephone interview. “Not one time did I hear my grandparents telling us that we should hate white Americans. They said ‘treat people the way you’d like to be treated, work hard, and you can make it in this country.’”

When Rev. Peterson moved to Los Angeles at 18, the “godless so-called leaders” convinced him that white Americans were holding blacks back. “I gave into that anger too, and it nearly destroyed me,” he recalled. But then, he started to question things. “I realized that if white Americans were holding us back because we’re black, why is it that the so-called leaders are doing very well? Why wasn’t the white man holding them back? And that’s when I realized that we had been lied to.”

With that realization, he explained, God caused him to overcome his anger and forgive his parents. “When I forgave them, God forgave me and gave me perfect peace. That’s when I realized that black Americans are deliberately being kept down by the people that they trust the most,” he said. And after that awakening, the rest, as they say, is history.

Rev. Peterson founded the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (BOND) in 1990 with the purpose of, as its motto states: "Rebuilding the Family By Rebuilding the Man." He currently serves as its president. The non-profit provides counseling, after-school character building programs, a home for boys, and many other services. More recently, Rev. Peterson formed BOND Action, a lobbying organization which exists to “educate, motivate, and rally Americans to greater involvement in the moral, cultural and political issues that threaten our great country.”

For five years, the BOND Action Committee held a national day of repudiation of Jesse Jackson, organizing a big rally outside Jackson’s office on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. “We wanted to show the contrast between Dr. King’s dream and Jesse Jackson’s nightmare,” explained Rev. Peterson. “Dr. King said that one day we would be judged by the content of our character and not color, but Jackson’s thing is that he took a dream and turned it into a nightmare, and now, black Americans are into color instead of character.”

He told JBS.org about some of the people BOND has helped go on to Ivy League universities, successful careers and good lives. “We have a lot of success stories,” he explained, adding that many of the young people he has worked with would be presented at the organization’s 20-year anniversary celebration in October. “When you show them how to work hard, to be responsible, to judge people based on character, not color, stop hating their fathers and mothers for being out of order, there’s nothing in this country that can stop them, and BOND has proven that to be so.”

He also emphasized that all of the work is funded by private donors. “We’ve done all of this without one dime from the government,” he said. “The less government in your life, the better off you are, and I’ve realized that the government is what set black Americans up to lose their sense of self-control.” He’s proud of the fact that he has never asked government to help.

BOND’s most important goal, according to Rev. Peterson, is turning men back toward God and rebuilding the family. Another aim is to help young people get a good education — Rev. Peterson even wants to start a BOND Academy for Boys to house and educate young men and help them understand American history, all while learning the necessary skills to create a stable foundation for life. He also wants to unite the races. “It doesn’t make sense that in 2010, blacks and whites are still divided,” he said, adding that he is not “African American,” but rather an American.

He recently made headlines after being escorted out of a Los Angeles County hearing for loudly denouncing the county’s move to boycott Arizona over its immigration law. “I didn’t get arrested, but believe me, I was willing to. Somebody has to stand up for what is right,” he said.

The NAACP, Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, Al Sharpton and others “are deliberately using black Americans in order to gain power and wealth,” explained Rev. Peterson. “They keep them angry by telling them that it isn’t their fault, it’s the white man’s fault.” But it isn’t the “white man’s” fault, he insists — it‘s the government’s.

“About 50 years ago, the government came in under Lyndon Johnson and said to black people: ‘We’re going to help you, we’re going to take care of you — racism is holding you back, and the government is going to help you — but you can’t have a father in the home,” and that’s where the trouble came in, he said. “Black Americans said OK to that, and they took the fathers out, and the government became the Daddy of the family.”

Rev. Peterson said Democrats, in particular, were keeping blacks on the “plantation of the Democratic Party in order to use them. All they do is tell black people ‘if you vote for us we’ll throw you a program,’ and black people — not all but most — fall for that. So we want to educate black Americans about that.” He also wants all Americans to stop being scared about educating their fellow citizens and “stand up for the truth.”

On top of all that, Rev. Peterson is undertaking a nationwide speaking tour to expose President Barack Obama and stop his socialist agenda. “I never imagined that one day we would have a President who’s against the country, who’s a racist, who’s a socialist,” he said. But even though Rev. Peterson is fiercely opposed to Obama’s presidency, redistribution of wealth, and the current policies in general, there is a bright side to all of it. “The one good thing that’s coming out of this is that he has awakened the people — the good Americans of this country,” he said.

After speaking at Tea Party rallies around the country, he said it was clear that Tea Partiers were the “good folks” of America. “For these people to be called racists is nothing less than evil,” he explained. “When I meet the folks who are standing up and waking up, I feel good in that I think a change is going to come — I think we still have another chance to save America, and so I feel really good about that. I have hope.”

To save the nation, Americans need to stand up and fight for family, country, Constitution, and to put God back in the public square, Rev. Peterson concluded. “Our battle is a spiritual battle — a battle between right and wrong, good and evil,” he said. “The folks who are on the side of good — never mind the color — need to come together and start working against evil.”

Alex Newman is an American freelance writer and the president of Liberty Sentinel Media, Inc., a small media consulting firm. He is currently living in Sweden and has spent most of his life in Latin America, Europe and Africa. He has a degree in foreign languages and speaks Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian and a little Swedish and Afrikaans. In addition, he earned a degree in journalism from the University of Florida, with emphasis on economics and international relations.

After a barrage of bad press for city authorities, a 94-year-old Wisconsin farmer in Oak Creek finally won a long eminent domain battle with officials trying to seize his property for corporate interests. But despite the recent victory, big government is not done with Earl Giefer just yet.

“It ain’t over … They’re not going to give up,” Giefer toldThe Daily Reporter after the city gave up on its plan to seize his property by declaring it blighted. “They’re going to make things so miserable for me that I can’t stand it.”

Protests, national public-interest groups and wide-spread media attention forced the city council to back off its eminent domain scheme with a vote on June 1. But in the same resolution, the council promised to enforce all code and zoning regulations against the property.

The declaration has Giefer’s attorney concerned. “That is, as I see it, an announcement to go after Earl, and the question becomes are they treating him like everyone else or are they treating him differently?” lawyer Michael Schober askedThe Daily Reporter. “That’s troublesome to me,” he said, noting that he remains worried the resolution could result in heavy-handed enforcement and that the city’s powers could be abused.

"The eminent domain [issue], that's over, but the rest of the aggravation they're going to give me, oh boy," Giefer told TMJ4, a local NBC affiliate. “I don’t need all this aggravation.” He has lived on the 25-acre plot all of his life, and he doesn‘t want any amount of money for it — it’s simply not for sale. “What good is money? It’s a worthless piece of paper with numbers on it. People go for it. They think it’s God to them, but it ain’t,” he said. The farm has been in the family since the Civil War. And despite his age, Giefer still tends to the land and the cattle every day. Eventually, the property is supposed to be handed down to his niece.

The city originally claimed the presence of Giefer’s farm was “inconsistent with development strategies.” A company called Wispark LLC — part of an “elite class of developers” and a subsidiary of Wisconsin Energy Corporation [NYSE: WEC] — purchased land nearby and plans to build a business park. But city officials claim Giefer’s farm might deter future development, so they’ve been on a mission to get rid of him.

But if the local authoritarians thought they were going to bully Giefer into submission with code enforcement citations and zoning rules, they had better come up with another strategy. A nearby contractor named Jason Fry got wind of the city’s vendetta and agreed to help Giefer resolve any issues with his property that the city might bring up — for free.

“We’re a full-service general contractor. That’s why I offered it to [Giefer‘s niece],” Fry toldThe Daily Reporter. “Anything she needed, free of charge.” Fry’s own property is facing $18,000 in fines over “zoning” violations, and he is sick of big government picking on people and telling them they “have to do something.”

Fry is not alone in his desire to help Giefer in his fight for property rights. The comment sections of local news reports are filled with angry residents expressing their disgust with city officials. “First, the city has no right to take this property away. The Oak Creek city council is full of money hungry, greedy people that think with their wallets not their heads,” wrote one commenter at Oak Creek Now. “Second, this man has tried to get building permits within the last year to build a new house however the slimy Oak Creek city council wont pass the permits for him.” Countless residents echoed the displeasure.

The county Libertarian Party got involved too, even helping organize a protest against city officials. “If we lose our right to private property, we have no rights at all, really," county Chairman Brad Sponholz toldOak Creek Now. "I've talked to a hundred people and not one thinks this is a good thing. People are fired up."

Nationally, the non-profit Institute for Justice’s “Castle Coalition” also joined the battle, urging citizens to attend a rally against the eminent domain abuse. “Giefer’s neighbors and community are standing behind him in this fight to keep what is rightfully his,” the organization said on its blog, CastleWatch. “The fight for the Giefer farm is the front line of the eminent domain battle in Wisconsin.” A staff attorney for the group also told reporters that they may seek legislative action in the state to prevent similar abuses in the future.

The attention this case has received may allow Giefer to live out the remainder of his life in peace, with his property rights intact. But while city officials may have been embarrassed into dropping the eminent domain process, and other local governments may be similarly deterred after seeing what happened in Oak Creek — there is still a big problem that must be resolved.

In 2005, the Supreme Court trampled on the Constitution, the English language, and the rights of all Americans when it decided in Kelo v. City of New London that governments could seize private property to further “economic development.” This wrong must be rectified by Congress because as long as it stands, no person’s right to property ownership is safe. Hopefully Giefer’s plight can put the issue back in the spotlight so it can be solved once and for all.

Alex Newman is an American freelance writer and the president of Liberty Sentinel Media, Inc., a small media consulting firm. He is currently living in Sweden and has spent most of his life in Latin America, Europe and Africa. He has a degree in foreign languages and speaks Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian and a little Swedish and Afrikaans. In addition, he earned a degree in journalism from the University of Florida, with emphasis on economics and international relations.

Thanks to the dedication of John Birch Society members and freedom-loving statesmen in New Hampshire, the state officially rescinded all past calls for a federal Constitutional Convention after a decades-long fight to educate legislators about the dangers.

Using materials such as Larry Greenley’s 2009 article for The New American magazine entitled "Dangers of a Constitutional Convention," a JBS DVD called "Beware of Article V," and a model resolution available on JBS.org, Birchers spread information and testified at committee hearings to highlight the enormous risks of a “con-con.” And this time around, they were successful.

In what witnesses described as a unanimous voice vote, the New Hampshire House of Representatives passed HCR28 in mid March “rescinding all requests by the New Hampshire legislature for a federal constitutional convention.” The State Senate followed suit, approving the resolution earlier this month. And the Governor’s consent is not required.

“This has been a very long battle,” explained JBS volunteer New Hampshire Section Leader Bill McNally, who legislators and JBS officials credited with being one of the primary movers of the effort. “It started in 1988 when the Birch Society alerted us that we needed to rescind the calls for a con-con.… We had that battle nearly won until President Reagan called the House Majority Leader and basically told him that this was a bad idea.”

But after many attempts and a lot of work, McNally and other Birchers were finally able to get the necessary support among lawmakers, all the while learning through their experiences. “It’s been a long fight, but it’s an interesting educational process because no one understood the Article V,” McNally told JBS.org in a telephone interview.

Harold Shurtleff, the JBS Coordinator for the North East region of the U.S., offered some insight into the triumph. “I think the key thing is building relationships with people — especially legislators. Patience is a virtue here, and also having the right material,” he said, pointing out that the Society’s educational material played a key role. “And just because a person may have a D beside their name doesn’t mean they won’t help us. It was a Democrat House that passed this in New Hampshire, so it’s not a left-right issue.”

About half-a-dozen Birchers testified in favor of the resolution. “The JBS was pretty much alone in this one, which is not unusual,” he said, adding that it was members who deserved most of the credit. “Most people know nothing about this, or they sympathize with the notion of a con-con, but let them read our material or view our DVD, and they change pretty quickly,” Shurtleff explained. He’s also working in other states to have them rescind their calls.

The whole issue of constitutional conventions remains mysterious, and there are many unanswered questions about how and when one should be convened, what limitations there could be, if any, and more. Everybody seems to have different answers. But the danger to the American form of government is extraordinary.

“A Constitutional Convention could really open up a can of worms — there’s no constitutional mechanism to limit the delegates to a specific topic no matter how much the legislatures think they can,” explained liberty-minded Republican New Hampshire Rep. Tim Comerford, who introduced the resolution. “The only other convention the U.S. has ever had was a runaway convention that was meant to amend the Articles of Confederation. They created a whole new Constitution, and while we got a good Constitution, I don’t think we’d get anything good these days; it’d become a lobbyist free-for-all.”

Comerford said he distributed the ‘Beware of Article V’ DVD to fellow legislators and that it helped him refine his talking points. The 24-year-old, first-term legislator told JBS.org that he received an e-mail from the Senate President in Florida urging him to defeat his own resolution. But for the most part, there was very little opposition to it once fellow lawmakers and citizens understood the implications of a con-con.

It’s a very risky proposition, Comerford said, and plus: “there’s no real sense in putting a balanced budget amendment in there — they don’t really follow the rest of [the Constitution] anyway.” He said he would support a constitutional amendment to limit Congress’ power to borrow money, but that it should be adopted using the other option available through Article V which has been used for all previous amendments — approval by two thirds of Congress and three fourths of the states.

Rather than calling for a con-con, a better solution to America’s out-of-control federal government would be to force it to obey the Supreme Law of the Land as it stands today. As Jack Kenny pointed out in a recent article for The New American: “if Congress heeded the existing Constitution, there would be no need for a balanced-budget amendment, since much of the federal spending authorized by our Representatives and Senators bears little to no relation to the legislative powers delegated to Congress by the Constitution.” Or as attorney Gregory A. Hession wrote: “virtually every overreach of the federal government can be checked by applying the chains of the existing Constitution! So why chance a convention?”

While the nation may be dangerously close to a con-con, the victory in New Hampshire is certainly encouraging news. Hopefully it will lead legislators in other states to take notice and educate themselves and their colleagues on the dangers. And while many state lawmakers are undoubtedly well intentioned, the risks are simply too great at this point to consider calling a convention a good idea. The Constitution may not be perfect, but losing it could very well mean the end of mankind’s greatest experiment in liberty — forever.

Photo: Rep. Tim Comerford

Alex Newman is an American freelance writer and the president of Liberty Sentinel Media, Inc., a small media consulting firm. He is currently living in Sweden and has spent most of his life in Latin America, Europe and Africa. He has a degree in foreign languages and speaks Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian and a little Swedish and Afrikaans. In addition, he earned a degree in journalism from the University of Florida, with emphasis on economics and international relations.

Several individuals working for the People’s Republic of China were convicted in federal court this month, proving yet again that the communist regime has unleashed swarms of agents to gather the sensitive secrets and technology of American business, military and government. But despite the enormity of the problem, there has been very little coverage in the press.

Last week, a federal jury in Massachusetts convicted Chinese nationals Zhen Zhou Wu and Yufeng Wei of conspiracy, illegally exporting prohibited technological equipment to various Chinese military outfits, and several other crimes. The pair used Chitron Electronics Inc., a U.S. corporation which was also found guilty at trial, to acquire the electronics and ship them to the regime through Hong Kong.

“For more than 10 years, this corporation and these defendants conspired to procure U.S. military products and other controlled electronic components for use in mainland China – for military radar, military satellite communications, and military guidance systems. In doing so, these defendants violated U.S. export laws and compromised our national security,” said U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz in a statement about the convictions.

The exported equipment is also used in electronic warfare and some articles even have space applications. “These items could make a direct and significant contribution to weapons systems and war-fighting capabilities of U.S. adversaries,” noted a press release from the Department of Justice.

Both of the conspirators face up to 20 years in prison and deportation after serving their sentences. A co-defendant of the duo, Bo Li, pled guilty to related charges and faces five years in prison and a $1 million fine.

Two weeks ago in California, Chinese spy Chi Tong Kuok was also convicted by a federal jury for similar crimes. Among the technology he sought to provide for the communist regime was communications, encryption, and global positioning system (GPS) equipment used by the U.S. and NATO militaries, according to another press release from the Department of Justice.

"This conviction underscores the threat posed by illicit efforts to obtain sensitive U.S. technology and the need for continued vigilance against such schemes,” said Assistant Attorney General for National Security David Kris in a statement. “The military encryption technology at the heart of this conspiracy is controlled for good reason and I applaud the agents, analysts and prosecutors who kept these goods from falling into the wrong hands."

These convictions are merely the newest additions to a growing list of communist China’s agents, and likely the tip of a massive iceberg. As reported by JBS.org-affiliate The New American magazine in a recent in-depth article entitled ‘Chinese Spying in the United States,’ the regime’s espionage is likely one of the greatest threats to U.S. national security, and dozens of its agents have been arrested in recent years.

“The Chinese are the biggest problem we have with respect to the level of effort that they’re devoting against us versus the level of attention we are giving to them,” said former U.S. counterintelligence chief Michelle Van Cleave in a CBS interview. The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission and many other agencies, officials and analysts agree. Of course, even former President Bill Clinton helped Beijing acquire America’s nuclear secrets and many other sensitive secrets. But the regime is obviously not satisfied yet.

Government estimates of the scope of economic espionage against the U.S. range to a quarter of a trillion dollars per year — and most of that is going to the Chinese regime. China is also actively seeking information on its dissidents living abroad, as evidenced by convictions of Chinese agents around the globe. Estimates on the number of spies working for the PRC, while hard to verify, are reliably placed at about 2 million by author Roger Faligot, who has written dozens of books on espionage with a particular emphasis on China. And most of their efforts are directed at America.

“There’s absolutely no doubt that their long term goal is world domination and to put the United States — as much as they can — out of business, and to become the world’s superpower,” former Canadian Minister of Parliament David Kilgour, also a former Minister of State for the Asia-Pacific region, told The New American for the article on Chinese espionage. “They want to run the whole planet.”

But while the U.S. government claims to be hunting down the regime’s spies, public schools in America are going forward with a controversial new program known as “Confucius Classroom” where the communist dictatorship supplies curriculums, funding and materials for American students.

Lest anyone not catch the importance of these developments, a simple examination of the Chinese government’s barbarous policies should loudly ring the alarm bells. The regime routinely forces women to undergo abortions as part of its “one child policy.” It jails political and religious dissidents and tortures them, or worse, harvests their organs while they are still breathing.

The spying issue should be a top priority for the U.S. government, since it directly endangers American lives and harms U.S. businesses. And while recent convictions should be applauded, there is still gargantuan amounts of work to be done. “American counterespionage — the FBI — has been largely ineffective against the Chinese,” explained Charles Viar, Chair of the Center for Intelligence Studies and a former U.S. counterintelligence official. Hopefully that will change soon. American lives may very well depend on it.

Alex Newman is an American freelance writer and the president of Liberty Sentinel Media, Inc., a small media consulting firm. He is currently living in Sweden and has spent most of his life in Latin America, Europe and Africa. He has a degree in foreign languages and speaks Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian and a little Swedish and Afrikaans. In addition, he earned a degree in journalism from the University of Florida, with emphasis on economics and international relations.

Judging from the hysteria of certain Senators and their lapdogs in the press, one might be justified in thinking that evil terrorists were all just walking down to the corner shop to legally purchase AK-47s and explosives. But the facts beg to differ.

Democratic Senator Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey and several cohorts recently stirred up a firestorm of controversy by attempting to exploit fears of terrorism in a blatant attack on due process and the right to keep and bear arms. Gun-rights groups from the National Rifle Association and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms to Gun Owners of America all blasted his anti-constitutional legislation when versions were first proposed years ago. But unfortunately, he refuses to let it die.

The efforts laid dormant for a long time despite support from the Bush and Obama regimes. But the agenda received new life earlier this month when the Senate Homeland Security Committee held a hearing on two of Lautenberg’s bills. The first one, S.1317, would deny the Second Amendment rights of everyone placed on the government’s infamous “terror watch list.” The proposal also purports to grant wide discretion to the Attorney General in prohibiting gun sales. The other bill, S.2820, would require the Federal Bureau of Investigation to keep records of all legal gun purchases, creating a de facto national gun registry.

"At a time when the threat of terrorism is still very real, as we in New York City know all too well, I think it's imperative that Congress close this ‘terror gap’ in our gun laws and close it quickly," whined New York City’s famous anti-gun mayor Michael Bloomberg in testimony during the Senate hearing, his police commissioner in tow. He also asked Congress to essentially shut down gun shows by requiring that every seller conduct a background check.

Senator Lautenberg offered similar hysteria during prepared remarks about his legislation. “It defies common sense, but it is the law of the land,” he said, referring to the fact that “suspicious” people who have not been convicted of a felony or declared mentally incompetent can still legally purchase a gun. He also cited statistics from the Government Accountability Office showing that people on the government’s “lists” managed to purchase guns most of the time. Democratic Representative Peter King of New York joined Lautenberg speaking in support of the measures.

The GOP Senators who actually participated in the hearing made a mockery of the anti-gunners’ logic, but received very little coverage by the press. So did Aaron Titus, the Privacy Director for the Liberty Coalition, who also testified. "[S.1317] should be titled the ‘Gun Owners Are Probably All Terrorists Act,’ because it strips citizens of their constitutional right to bear arms without any meaningful due process,” he said. “And Senate Bill 2820 should be called, 'The National Firearm Registry Act' because it creates a national firearms registry. . . . a massive database of names and detailed personal information of each law-abiding citizen who purchases a gun.”

Gun-control foes also blasted the proposals. "Lautenberg calls this the 'terror loophole,' yet neither he, nor anyone else, can adequately explain how someone gets their name on a so-called 'terrorist watch list,' and there appears to be no way to get one's name off such a list once it is there,” explained CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb when the bill was first introduced. "In Lautenberg's world view, any American citizen interested in owning a gun is a potential terrorist. Would he add all of our names to such a watch list, thus stripping us of our Second Amendment rights, without first being charged, prosecuted and convicted of some crime? Probably he would.”

Gun Owners of America — likely the nation’s staunchest defender of gun rights — attacked the “blatantly unconstitutional bills” after the hearing and vowed to continue working to defeat them. “Frank Lautenberg has long been an anti-Second Amendment activist, so no one should be fooled by his latest assault on freedom. It’s not just suspected terrorists that Mr. Lautenberg wants only to disarm—if he had his way guns would be banned entirely,” wrote GOA Director of Federal Affairs John Velleco. “His strategy is to constantly nibble away at the Second Amendment until only the police and the criminals have guns. The intent of the Founding Fathers and the liberties of the people are apparently as meaningful to Lautenberg as is the oath that he swore to uphold the Constitution.”

Even the National Rifle Association, which is known among Second Amendment activists for “compromising” on important issues, blasted the proposals in a statement about the Senate hearing. It called the bills “patently anti-American and unconstitutional” while labeling Lautenberg a “fanatic.” It also pointed out the deception used by the proposals’ backers during the hearing.

But the mainstream press — predictably — rushed to support the constitutional travesties. “[T]he issue allowed Democrats to exploit the war on terrorism in a way Republicans have been doing for years,” celebrated Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank in a piece absurdly entitled ‘Terrorists who want to buy guns have friends on Capitol Hill’ with a sub-header reading: “Is the NRA a terrorist organization?” But even a simple Google search would have decisively revealed how terribly wrong it would be to paint everyone on the government’s watch list a “terrorist.”

One of the more outrageous additions to the list reported recently was a harmless 8-year-old Boy Scout named Mikey Hicks from Lautenberg’s state of New Jersey. Even the late anti-Second-Amendment Senator Edward Kennedy said he found himself on the list, eventually telling reporters that he had to enlist the help of the Secretary of Homeland Security to get him off. The process took several weeks, and he was a Senator. The list now has well over a million names on it, and details about how one gets on or off remain murky.

The “terror” lists were so sloppy that they have even been criticized by the Department of Justice itself. In 2009, the DOJ inspector general concluded many of the list additions "were processed with little or no information explaining why the subject may have a nexus to terrorism," also noting that the FBI “did not consistently update or remove watch list records when appropriate.”

These anti-gun efforts represent obvious violations of the Second Amendment. But equally heinous is the trampling of rights enshrined by the Constitution’s Fifth Amendment — “No person shall be … deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law….” Lautenberg and his anti-American associates should be voted out of office as soon as possible for constantly attacking the Supreme Law of the Land and the oath to uphold it. Americans who value their God-given rights to arms and to remain innocent until proven guilty should make his removal a top priority.

Alex Newman is an American freelance writer and the president of Liberty Sentinel Media, Inc., a small media consulting firm. He is currently living in Sweden and has spent most of his life in Latin America, Europe and Africa. He has a degree in foreign languages and speaks Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian and a little Swedish and Afrikaans. In addition, he earned a degree in journalism from the University of Florida, with emphasis on economics and international relations.